Well, I know that the HD7950 is doing something--the 350w PSU running it is squealing like a pig...

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Better keep an eye on it (unless it's a really good 350w unit or the rest of the system is lightweight), as my 7970 is reading 10A input @ 12.13v and my 7950s are reading 11.2A @ 11.6v (I tested this Mushkin PSU with a DMM and it really reads around 11.95v at the PCIe connectors, so I guess my Rosewill PSUs pull the 12v rail fairly high).

Better keep an eye on it (unless it's a really good 350w unit or the rest of the system is lightweight), as my 7970 is reading 10A input @ 12.13v and my 7950s are reading 11.2A @ 11.6v (I tested this Mushkin PSU with a DMM and it really reads around 11.95v at the PCIe connectors, so I guess my Rosewill PSUs pull the 12v rail fairly high).

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It's an alright one--an 80Plus Antec PSU. The rest of the system is just an i3-2100, a H77 board, and a single HDD. I will be swapping it to a 550w PSu when I have time.

Given the points I'm receiving, I'm pretty sure I'm not getting bonuses....but I am using a passkey. Any idea what may be wrong?
The rest of the system is just an i3-2100, a H77 board, and a single HDD.

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If you are doing anything else with that CPU, you will hurt the GPU's production. My previous post was intended to point out that these beta WU's on Nvidia require a thread (they say CPU) for each GPU. That basically rules out doing anything else with your 2core/4thread CPU while running these beta WU's. Hopefully, Nvidia will fix this. This is not an issue with AMD GPU's.

Well, this is pretty amazing. I have my GTX470s, GTX560TI448, HD7930, HD7950, and various G92 cards folding away. I'm getting ~75k PPD on the HD7950, ~50k on the HD7930, ~35k on the GTX560TI448, ~25k per GTX470, and then whatever the G92 cards do. Hopefully I'll be able to keep FAH on the HD7950 going for a while

I had to put a 7950 on the X2 4400+/GF6150 system as my 2600K/Z68 Extreme4 Gen3/Mushkin XP-800AP 800w PSU system always freezes after 8-12 hours. Problem is, the board doesn't properly initialize the 7950 so I have to have the display hooked up to the onboard. I also can't write to the card's registers and can't check most of the vitals besides the voltages and current, but the card still folds albeit at a 20% PPD penalty. Still better than having a 200K PPD machine freeze all the time and killing my PPD, though. I may need to move some cards around and possibly get the Z77 Pro4-m in an ATX case so I can move the 7950s to that where they will properly cooperate with the UEFI.

Is that the system that I sent to you? I'm having issues where my HD7950 rig locks up---I'm going to try a better PSU tomorrow to see if that is the issue. I can't think of what else it might be.

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Yeah, it is. I also tried a 7950 in my ancient ASRock 775XFire-VSTA and the system would endlessly turn on and off every few seconds, so I'm happy it works just barely enough in the HP board to be used for F@H. Removing one of the two 7950s from my ASRock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 stopped it from freezing after 8-12 hours, so either my old Mushkin XP-800AP is getting weak or the board has some power delivery issues.

I'm really glad Stanford got it together at the right time. A single HD 7950 on the beta units replaces my entire army of GTX 400 Fermi GPUs, so now I'm probably going to have sh!t luck selling them. Of course, nobody knows how long the 7663s will run or if similar WUs will exist in the future, but I completely enjoy my 400K+ PPD for the meantime.

Don't worry about bringing a 4P rig over to WCG and losing tons of F@H points, Buck. Our WCG team needs all the CPUs it can get without GPU WUs at the moment, and I am already helping pick up a ton of points for the F@H team with my 3 HD 79xx GPUs. I'm sure we'll be alright.

Yeah, it is. I also tried a 7950 in my ancient ASRock 775XFire-VSTA and the system would endlessly turn on and off every few seconds, so I'm happy it works just barely enough in the HP board to be used for F@H. Removing one of the two 7950s from my ASRock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 stopped it from freezing after 8-12 hours, so either my old Mushkin XP-800AP is getting weak or the board has some power delivery issues.

I'm really glad Stanford got it together at the right time. A single HD 7950 on the beta units replaces my entire army of GTX 400 Fermi GPUs, so now I'm probably going to have sh!t luck selling them. Of course, nobody knows how long the 7663s will run or if similar WUs will exist in the future, but I completely enjoy my 400K+ PPD for the meantime.

Don't worry about bringing a 4P rig over to WCG and losing tons of F@H points, Buck. Our WCG team needs all the CPUs it can get without GPU WUs at the moment, and I am already helping pick up a ton of points for the F@H team with my 3 HD 79xx GPUs. I'm sure we'll be alright.

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I think we shall. Tomorrow after work I'm going to spend some time and see if I can't figure out the issues with my HD7950. These new bonus-enabled GPU WUs are awesome

If you still have the Fermi cards come later this summer, I'm still interested. Three of them would do 50% higher PPD than all ~9 G92 cards

I think we shall. Tomorrow after work I'm going to spend some time and see if I can't figure out the issues with my HD7950. These new bonus-enabled GPU WUs are awesome

If you still have the Fermi cards come later this summer, I'm still interested. Three of them would do 50% higher PPD than all ~9 G92 cards

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I'll keep them warm for ya.

That's actually around when I want to sell them, as we'll probably finally be moving to our new facility within a few months tops. I'm hoping to condense my farm down to just a few "heavy hitters" and finally put the old ones to rest in storage as backups. Right now I'm still running everything I got while I can, even if it is slow.

I just put my PC to work on the GPU again for F@H, to help compensating for the transition of the Buck Nasty 4P machine to the WCG. It is "but" a Radeon HD 6670 DDR3 that is in the meantime still finishing up some DistrRTGen GPU WUs so my F@H PPD will be insignificant for ~1.5 days.

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Although that value of 1.5 days can be alower estimate now (the quote is from yesterday, the "first" WU is now at 57% completion, despite the DistrRTGen GPU work still going on in BOINC). I might return to (once-in-a-while) folding on the GPU as long as there are no WCG GPU WUs and if it does not hinder my GPU work for POEM too much.